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Making Sense of Suicide Missions

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Klappentext Suicide attacks have become the defining act of political violence of our age. Based on a wealth of original research! and containing contributions from internationally distinguished scholars! Making Sense of Suicide Missions furthers our understanding of this chilling feature of the contemporary world in radically new and unexpected ways. Zusammenfassung Suicide attacks have become the defining act of political violence of our age. Based on a wealth of original research, and containing contributions from internationally distinguished scholars, Making Sense of Suicide Missions furthers our understanding of this chilling feature of the contemporary world in radically new and unexpected ways. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword 1: Peter Hill: Kamikaze 1943-5 2: Stephen Hopgood: Tamil Tigers 1987-2002 3: Luca Ricolfi: Palestinians 1981-2003 4: Stephen Holmes: Al Qaeda, September 11, 2001 5: Michael Biggs: Dying Without Killing: Self-Immolations 1963-2002 6: Stathis Kalyvas and Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca: Killing Without Dying: The Absence of Suicide Missions 7: Jon Elster: Motivations and Beliefs in Suicide Missions 8: Diego Gambetta: Can We Make Sense of Suicide Missions? References

List of contents

  • Foreword

  • 1: Peter Hill: Kamikaze 1943-5

  • 2: Stephen Hopgood: Tamil Tigers 1987-2002

  • 3: Luca Ricolfi: Palestinians 1981-2003

  • 4: Stephen Holmes: Al Qaeda, September 11, 2001

  • 5: Michael Biggs: Dying Without Killing: Self-Immolations 1963-2002

  • 6: Stathis Kalyvas and Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca: Killing Without Dying: The Absence of Suicide Missions

  • 7: Jon Elster: Motivations and Beliefs in Suicide Missions

  • 8: Diego Gambetta: Can We Make Sense of Suicide Missions?

  • References

Report

... demonstrates the relevance of political science to practical concerns...and the way in which certain kinds of "rational choice" explanations have become prevalent in political science. The American Political Science Review ( APSR )

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